Grand Canyon art

This webpage consists of a speed hand drawing of a great lizard landscape known as the Grand Canyon. What lizards make this landscape its home? Read more to find out. In the mean time, check out the drawing below of the Grand Canyon park.

Although the gila monster is poisonous, it is of little threat to humans. This "monster" is rather slow moving and even keel. They can't inject their venom, instead they must chew repeatedly -thus working the venom gradually in to their prey. Their diet mainly consists of birds eggs and other small prey. Because of this, it is thought that their venom developed purely as a defense mechanism.

The gila monster spends most of its time hiding, either in rocky crevices or burrowing underground. This makes the Grand Canyon park ideal for a gila monster habitat.

Other lizards that inhabit this landscape that the Grand Canyon art hand drawing is depicting above -are the collard lizard, the chuckwalla (my personal favorite), the mountain short-horned lizard, and several species of spiny lizards.

Some interesting Grand Canyon facts are: that it was made into a national park in 1919. It is 277 Miles long, and almost 18 miles wide, and roughly a mile deep.

It used to be inhabited by several Native American Indian tribes including the Pueblo tribe. The first automobile was able to make the journey to Grand Canyon Arizona in 1902, although Arizona did not become a state until 1912. The most interesting Grand Canyon fact, or controversy is its apparent age. Most scientists believe that it took roughly 4 million years to carve out the canyon we see today.

Most creationists (those who believe in the Bible) believe the Grand Canyon is roughly 4000 years old and took only a span of several months to carve. How can one believe that the Grand Canyon in all of its majestic wonder could have been carved in less than a year.

One explanation is the massive flood that happened roughly 4000 years ago, written about in the book of Genesis. If in fact the entire world was flooded, then a canyon of the Grand Canyon's size could have easily been formed in a relatively short period of time. One piece of evidence supporting the creationists view is that there are thousands of layers of sediment, but there is little if any erosion between the layers.

This would suggest that multiple layers of sediment were laid down at the exact same time -something that a massive flood could definitely produce.

If in fact the sentiments were all laid down at the same time, it would be relatively easy for water to cut through them assuming they had not yet hardened.

I believe in the creationists point of view, but don't let that stop you from doing your own research on the formation of the Grand Canyon.

The gila monster or chuckwalla probably doesn't care either way, their habitat suits them just fine. Be sure and check out the Grand Canyon art hand drawing above, or the three-dimensional partial Grand Canyon model featured on this website.